Christmas Card Reveal!

Wednesday, December 11, 2013
I struggled for a bit with whether or not to use our wedding & engagement photos on our Christmas card this year but ultimately decided to go ahead and use them. At first I thought it was just "too summery" looking for a Christmas card but then on the flip-side I thought- "Well we did take over 1,000 pictures!" I was thinking it would be weird to ever use them again after the first year right? So we took the plunge and gave them the recognition they deserved! (haha) A lot of my married friends said I might regret not using them. Plus- for half of the engagement shoot I wore a red dress which really helped with matching Christmas colors! (haha again)

Christmas 2013:


Front & Back


I've also been brainstorming next year's Christmas tree theme too- yes not even kidding. I want a bigger tree so that we can use the smaller one we have now in a separate room. We are currently looking for our "forever home" so pre-planning is fun for me! I was thinking about how much Blue Willow china and collectibles I have and how my blue & white collection is steadily growing (with yellow accents of course) and thought, why not a cute blue willow themed tree? It could totally work and you could make a lot of the ornaments just by visiting your local antique shop! Pretty blue fabric for a tree skirt? Gold accents? Check & Check & done. (Too bad I have an entire year to change my mind) Anyway, Happy Mid-Week Ya'll!!

Love these!

 

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32 comments:

  1. MelissaDecember 11, 2013 at 7:45 AM

    There's nothing wrong with pre-planning! I love the china-blue idea, and your Christmas cards are just so stinkin' cute! Love them :)

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  2. Elise @ Her Heart and HomeDecember 11, 2013 at 7:50 AM

    AHHHH your precious little heart dress self! BLESS! LOVE the card, cutie. It's so merry! So lovely! So perfecto!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE! Merry Christmas to you, sweet girl!!!! xx

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  3. LaurenDecember 11, 2013 at 8:00 AM

    Love the Christmas Card, looks great!! I love how you did a mix of Wedding Pictures & something more casual - that red dress is so pretty!!

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  4. Tammy JoDecember 11, 2013 at 8:29 AM

    The cards are perfect!!!!

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    1. Jessi @ Jessi's DesignDecember 11, 2013 at 8:29 AM

      Thanks Tammy Jo!!! :) I absolutely love doing Christmas cards haha

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  5. AshleyDecember 11, 2013 at 8:31 AM

    Your Christmas card is so adorable! I think using engagement and wedding photos is a good idea. I mean you take all those pictures to show off so why not use them, right?!

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    1. Jessi @ Jessi's DesignDecember 11, 2013 at 8:32 AM

      That's what I ultimately told myself! :) We can do a holiday shoot every other year!

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  6. Taylor JeavonsDecember 11, 2013 at 8:35 AM

    The red dress makes it perfect! Love it.

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  7. JordonDecember 11, 2013 at 8:47 AM

    We did postcards last year and I loved them!! Too cute!

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    1. Jessi @ Jessi's DesignDecember 11, 2013 at 10:00 AM

      I still used envelopes on some to add pictures! haha but I do like the postcard look!

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  8. Meredith @ Barbell WardrobeDecember 11, 2013 at 9:04 AM

    Loved your cards, we picked wedding photos because hey, it only happens once!

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  9. Kasey LynneDecember 11, 2013 at 10:34 AM

    That Christmas card is so cute! And how great that it's a postcard as well!

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    1. Jessi @ Jessi's DesignDecember 11, 2013 at 10:36 AM

      Try to save paper- we did that for our save-the-dates too!

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  10. meagan @ beautiful thingsDecember 11, 2013 at 11:00 AM

    so so cute! love your tree idea---that will be gorgeous!

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    1. Jessi @ Jessi's DesignDecember 12, 2013 at 5:35 AM

      Thanks Meagan!! (only have a year to wait to try it out haha)

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  11. Elena @ baby Ridley bumpDecember 11, 2013 at 2:27 PM

    Love your cards and love the idea of the blue willow china!! I love blue at Christmas, we use blue lights outside, we don't get a lot of positve feedback about it but we love it!

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    1. Jessi @ Jessi's DesignDecember 12, 2013 at 5:35 AM

      Well keep doing it because not many people do! haha love it!

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  12. Katie ElizabethDecember 11, 2013 at 3:45 PM

    LOVE how your Christmas cards turned out! Looking at everyone's they are posting makes me a little bummed we didn't do anything this year! And don't worry - I'm totally preplanning for next year, too. I'm thinking we will be moving out of the city in the next year so we might be in a REAL house next Christmas!

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  13. Lauren CollinsDecember 11, 2013 at 6:36 PM

    Very cute! Brides pay way too much to look beautiful and pay so much for a photographer! You deserve to use those for the next ten years! :) I ordered mine from minted.com and half of them were blurry! Twice! Did you have that problem?

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    1. Jessi @ Jessi's DesignDecember 12, 2013 at 5:37 AM

      Oh no! I used shutterfly this year and loved them and I used zazzle last year. With Minted being a little more expensive that shouldn't have happened! Did it say "low resolution" when you uploaded the photos? Maybe they can give you some sort of credit! :(

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  14. Becky MDecember 11, 2013 at 11:34 PM

    We did the same thing with ours - it took me a bit to decide, but dince we paid for them, we decided to go for it! Yours look great!

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  15. Jess Lyons&TigersDecember 12, 2013 at 6:49 AM

    I LOVE your cards! Also, at my parents house, we have the family tree and then my mother and I have "our" tree, which has all coordinated decorations in a separate room, lol. I am so looking forward to the day when I have my own REAL tree and not just my little fake one :)

    jess | Quaintrelle

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    1. Jessi @ Jessi's DesignDecember 12, 2013 at 6:56 AM

      SAME! -I love the idea of 2 different ones! (& I'm thinking of ditching the fake and going for a real one next year- it has been awhile!)

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  16. Laurie @ Stylin SavannaDecember 14, 2013 at 9:18 PM

    Gorgeous cards. I'm so bummed & I'm not used to being the Mom of 2, I didn't even get a chance to send out our cards this year. Everyone got a phone call instead which was almost just as time consuming? Oh well.. at least I didn't have to buy stamps lol

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